Dec
23
2016
Healing us vs them
After all the continuing hate and vitriol over the elections in the US and the UK, is there a way to bring both sides together? We can take inspiration from the work of Dacher Keltner, a psychologist at University of California at Berkeley, who has made it his life work to counter the prevailing view […]
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23
2016
An instant way to heal us vs them
After all the continuing hate and vitriol over the elections in the US and the UK, all of us are left wondering how on earth we will ever bring both sides back together. Recently, I discovered an ingeniously rapid way to heal divisions between people in the work of Dacher Keltner, a psychologist at University […]
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16
2016
6 Reasons to postpone the Electoral College Vote
I’m going to make a personal disclosure so that you don’t accuse me of speaking in self-interest. If Donald Trump becomes President, I will personally benefit. The taxes on my American corporation will be lower, meaning there will be greater profits for us and more money to pay our team.
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9
2016
Why inequality is killing you
Two British epidemiologists, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, spent more than thirty years painstakingly examining why certain human societies live longer and healthier than others, the results of which are contained in their book, Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Always Do Better. After researching the social conditions of virtually every Western country, Wilkinson and […]
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2
2016
An Open Letter to President Donald Trump: 8 ways to #bemypresident
Dear Mr. Trump, No doubt you are pretty busy, attempting to fill the vacancies in your future cabinet. but I wanted to respond to your promise, in the Thanksgiving video last week, to ‘unite’ the country and to be a ‘President for all the people.’ As you no doubt know, there have been non-stop protests […]
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18
2016
It’s unfairness, stupid
I am watching the Democrats beat each other up over what happened to their sure-fire win in the presidential election. They blame FBI director James Comey for the eleventh hour email announcement about further investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails as secretary of state, which of course didn’t help. They blame it on poisonous nature of […]
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11
2016
After the election: what to do next
So many people are so distraught by the election results that my New York agent tells me that Los Angeles agents are refusing to pick up the phone and do business, so certain are they that the world is coming to an end. This blog is meant to be a reassurance to both sides, as […]
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28
2016
To all Republicans (and Democrats): I see you
Orland Bishop appears to be on a fool’s errand – the kind of fool’s errand our next American president may feel she (or he) is on when trying to heal the terrible rift exposed by this election. Bishop’s chosen patch to spread the word is Watts, a district in southern Los Angeles where the war […]
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23
2015
Do we have to kill cancer?
Dr Larry Dossey, author of Be Careful What You Pray For …once noted that negative intention is the very foundation of most healing. Healing from an infectious agent or a rogue cell line such as cancer requires intent to harm. It works from a desire to kill something: to inhibit bacterial enzymes, alter cell membrane […]
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23
2015
The New Science: The Basics Thank you page
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